folks in staten island, new york, begging for any assistance. look at this. signs like these being put up reading: obama, fema, help! and making matters worse, even more people being displaced today, the city placing yellow warning signs on homes telling folks who have nowhere to go that they have to get out of the homes they are in. rick leventhal is there live. >> reporter: megyn, the building department's putting color-coded stickers on the doors. green means it's okay. we haven't seen any of those. red means uninhabitable, and most of the houses have the yellow signs on the door, restricted use. so they can go in to do construction work, and some people are stay anything their homes despite these yellow signs, but look at how much debris is still left in the street. the city has picked up 130,000 tons of garbage and debris, and there's still so much left to pick up. and this neighborhood, we're a mile and a half from the ocean, and the water was well over our heads, 12 feet high. we're going into lloyd dennis' home. he's ripping stuff out right now. whoa,